On My Travels - Original Artwork

On My Travels started as a playground, nothing more than testing leaves and stencils until the tropical shapes began reading like a dream, a landscape from somewhere I'd never actually been.

Two big flowers, pink and purple, sit on top of each other, ringed in metallic silver that runs round the outside and straight back into the petals. Screen prints, hand-cut stencils, spray paint, pastels, layer on layer until the surface couldn't take any more, so I went in with a screwdriver and acetone, scraped back the black, and let what was underneath show through. The background split itself doing that, the bottom turned ocean-blue, the top stayed dark, and it ended up looking like night water. I decided to keep it. The accident is the best part.

B2, 500 x 700mm, framed in stained birch by Tom at Clark & Prince.